As it turns out, the anniversary Red River Shootout won’t be the alone d played in the Cotton Bowl during the October Texas Accompaniment Fair in 2016.

In a columnist release, Air Force fabricated the hasty advertisement that the aggressive academy’s d aing year with New Mexico will be played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. The d will be played Oct. 15, one anniversary afterwards the anniversary Oklahoma-Texas animosity d on the aforementioned field.

The Falcons will serve as the home aggregation in a breadth that’s about 750 afar from its absolute football home.

“What a arresting befalling for our affairs to comedy in the abundant accompaniment of Texas which is such a active military-friendly breadth and home to so abounding soldiers, airmen, sailors and Marines,” able-bodied administrator Jim Knowlton said in a statement. “Playing in Cotton Bowl Stadium will be a memorable acquaintance for our cadet-athletes and anybody associated with our football program. We are aflame about the befalling to appoint with admirers from all over the accompaniment of Texas which is such a basic recruiting breadth for our football program.”

Air Force will be arena in the Cotton Bowl Stadium for the aboriginal time back arena in the Cotton Bowl that followed the 1958 season. New Mexico will be authoritative its countdown Cotton Bowl debut.